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title: Ezekiel 17:17 (JPS 1917) — Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company succour… · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company succour him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many souls; Who acts: Pharaoh, army. Ezekiel 17:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ezekiel 17:17 · JPS 1917

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Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company succour him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many souls;

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**Who acts:** Pharaoh, army · **What happens:** succour, cast up, build, cut off · **To what, where:** king, war, mounds, forts, many souls

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This is Ezekiel 17:17 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pharaoh, army), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:EZK:395
# text = Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company succour him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many souls;
1	Neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
3	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	succour	succour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	cast	cast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	mounds	mound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	forts	fort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succour** | shall | Pharaoh with Pharaoh's mighty army and great company | king |  | the war |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cast up** | present | army | mounds |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mound=Product |
| 3 | **build** | present | army *not said here* | forts |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fort=Product |
| 4 | **cut off** | to-infinitive | army *not said here* | many souls |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector soul=Eventuality |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וְלֹא֩ בְחַ֨יִל גָּד֜וֹל וּבְקָהָ֣ל רָ֗ב יַעֲשֶׂ֨ה אוֹת֤וֹ פַרְעֹה֙ בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔ה בִּשְׁפֹּ֥ךְ סֹלְלָ֖ה וּבִבְנ֣וֹת דָּיֵ֑ק לְהַכְרִ֖ית נְפָשׁ֥וֹת רַבּֽוֹת׃

[Ezekiel 17:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.17.17/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EZK:395` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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